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Low-profile, aerodynamic crossbars create an aftermarket roof rack for your vehicle. Aluminum bars have T-slots that let you mount channel-mounted carriers and accessories. Flexible rubber strips in T-slots keep out dirt and won't need trimming.
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Inno Aero Aluminum Load Bars - Black - Qty 2:Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information.
Speaker 1: Today on our 2016 Acura MDX we'll be taking a look at and showing you how to install the Inno Roof Rack System. This is going to consist of the Inno Aero Crossbars measuring 60 inches long, with part number INXB153-2, the Inno Through Feet for Aero cross bars, part number INXS250 and the custom fit kit for our MDX, part number INK656.The Inno roof rack system, like most others, allows you to carry bike racks, kayak carriers and cargo baskets on your roof, and still have that aerodynamic shape that helps to reduce wind noise and drag. The Inno bars are also going to have the weather strip like most other cross bars. The only difference is that this one will push down and work with your channel mounted accessories, where others you actually have to remove that weather strip and cut it down. This is going to be easy to install. It's going to clamp around our door frame and lock into place.
This roof rack system has a 120 pound weight capacity, though you do want to double check your vehicle's owners manual to make sure your roof can withstand that much weight. It's also going to come with an easy install. We'll show you how to do that now.Now, everything on our table is what we will need to install our roof rack system. We already have our front bar installed and half of our back bar here. We're going to provide our own flat tape measure, but everything else will come in our kit.
We'll have our end caps for our feet, as well as the keys to lock everything down. The end caps for our crossbars, the tool to tighten everything down, the tool to tighten down our feet as well as the adapter to secure our feet to our crossbar, our feet themselves, a foam block which will go inside our weather channel at the bottom to prevent any wind noise or drag, and then our fit kit, both the clamp as well as the pad. We'll start by flipping our crossbar over.We'll be working on the driver's side of the crossbar. We'll start by taking the inside portion, and we're going to slide that all the way out to the end. We're going to take our adapter piece and line up this notch with the notch on our crossbar.
Place it in, and we can slide it back in. Slide it all the way in, push on the button, and slide it in the rest of the way until it hits the stopper here. We'll line up the small notch and the large notch with the two holes on our adapter. We can measure out the distance between our two feet. We're going to measure this out to 43 3/4 inches.
We're going to tighten down the bolt on the inside here, and this will secure our foot in place to our adapter. Now we'll take the pad from our fit kit. We're going to place it onto our foot. We want to line up the indentions with our bolts on the bottom and we'll just push it into place until we have a nice, secure fit. You do want to double check your instructions to make sure you use the correct pad for our front bar as well as our back bar.Now we can take our clamp. We're going to start by removing our bolts her on on our foot pack. Take the clamp and place it just over where our bolt was, and then tighten it back down enough so that it holds our clamp into place. We don't want it too tight. Now we'll take our foam spacer, place it inside the end of our crossbar until it makes contact with our foot pack. We'll take a knife, and we're just going to mark where the end of our crossbar sits, and we can cut off this excess here. We'll take our knife and we'll just cut right along that line. We can take the piece that we cut and place it back into the channel. Lastly, before we place this on to our vehicle, we'll take our end cap for our crossbar and push it into place.Before we load up our crossbar we want to open our doors, and we can gently place our crossbar onto our vehicle. To measure out our crossbar spread, we're going to measure from the center of our front clamp to the center of our back, and that's going to be 59 centimeters. Make sure we do the same measurement on the other side so that the other side is sitting 59 centimeters away as well. Now we'll take our included torque tool and tighten down this bolt here. We want to make sure we that we tighten down each side evenly so we have a nice, secure fit. Once we hear that click, that's when we know we have enough torque behind our bolt. Now we can take our end cap, place it onto our foot, lock it into place, and we're ready to load up our accessories and hit the road.That's going to be our completed look at the Inno Roof Rack System on our 2016 Acura MDX.
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (122 Customer Reviews)
Low-profile, aerodynamic crossbars create an aftermarket roof rack for your vehicle. Aluminum bars have T-slots that let you mount channel-mounted carriers and accessories. Flexible rubber strips in T-slots keep out dirt and won't need trimming.Waste of money. Most annoying couple hours spent in a long time. Extremely disappointed. Does not fit well. Not exactly a cheap option, but a cheap option in terms of fit and engineering. The instructions online and in the kits do not agree. But there is no helping the design. Plus there are no universal set of instructions--they are all individual items for the fit kit, the bars, etc. But a reasonably inclined person can figure it out so no big deal, but the engineering design is garbage--requires precise measurement yet the design is such that exact measurement is impossible due to the design.
Additionally, the parts are low quality Either low density plastic or easily stripped bolts. Even when as precise as possible, I wouldn't trust it with my kayak. What a mistake. Do yourself a favor and get a Yakima trailer or similar. It isn't that much more money in the scheme of things and then it isn't tied to your car. Can add a hitch to most vehicles anyway.
Racks were perfect for my Acura MDX. They fit like a glove and I have used them several times.
Has worked great for transporting my fishing Kayak as well as small loads of lumber. It has worked fine for about a dozen and a half boards at a time or a couple of sheets of plywood. Just make sure that you have a good way to strap them down as well as maybe a rubber mat to help hold everything in place. The noise from it on the high way can be a lot but certainly not as bad as some that I have heard. I figure that anything on the outside of a vehicle like that will produce some noise.
worked as expected, I used them to carry my hobie outback kayak (about 100lbs) on my Honda Civic 2016 Coupe (2 doors). They worked with no problem so far (1 year) even under high speed like 70mph.
We recently purchased 2 kayaks & Thule roof racks from our local outdoor store.
After waiting 2 weeks for our roof racks and J bars to come in we found that the Thule racks did not fit our 2017 Lincoln MKX and they didn't make any racks that would. The vehicle does not have roof racks and has a moon roof.
After a couple of days searching the internet we discovered etrailer.com. We found the Inno roof racks, but still was not sure they would work. We spoke to a repesenative and he assured us that the racks we chose would fit and the Thule J bars we did return would also work. As you can see by the photos 2 days later we were happy Kayakers.
This kit does not fit well. All measurements have been double and triple checked down to the millimeter. The lock on the covers interfere with the hooks. You have to apply so much pressure to get it to close that it makes the rack come loose. Not very satisfied
Great product, good quality. I had a budget, and this fit the bill.
Ideally, I would love for the crossbars to line up with the rails.
The customer service was A+++ I would order again from etrailer.com any time!
I bought these as part of a kit with 60" Aero bars and the appropriate kit for my 14 Flex. I spent probably an hour and a half double checking my measurements and getting them torqued down properly. I spaced the bars on top of the car just a little wider than proscribed because I was planning on carrying 4x8 plywood, and it looked better to my eye. One thing to watch for: The instructions for the car-specific kit (in my case INK263) show the foot spacing measurements for a square bar, and the measuring point for these feet and Aero bars is different. That measurement point is indicated in the instructions for the feet, not the kit. Same numbers, just different reference point. Otherwise, they look good and are rock solid.
I did a lot of searching before selecting this rack for my Durango RT (no factory roof rails). It is easy to reinstall once the initial process is followed, I marked my doorjambs with a sharpie and it is easy to set up. Great product!
Love these crossbars, they fit my truck perfectly. Love that they lock too. I feel much safer with them on my truck knowing that they lock.
Installation was a little tricky but once the "feet" were attached to the roof and the bars properly spaced, everything wrapped up very well.
There is no noticeable wind noise with these installed.
Wanted to keep my 64"Thule square load bars from my older roof rack since Thule changed the load bars to the new v bottom cut version. Read from the reviews that inno rack still allows you to use the old Thule bars.
Large cost savings instead of having to buy brand new rack. Inno rack feet with (old)Thule cross bars work fine with a wind surfer and Thule box! instructions say for a 2016 MDX bare roof but fits my 2022 mdx and well.
Great racks. High quality parts. Fit perfectly. Went together easily.
One was extremely hard to get on compared to the others (not sure if it had some rough machining or something), but once all we’re on, all was good
Started assembly last summer and finally completed installation this spring. Directions took a lot of attention to detail but were adequate. Rack went on car securely and looks great. Have attached kayak rack and a roof pod and both worked flawlessly. Would definitely recommend.
etrailer was the only vendor who had the custom fit roof rack feet I needed for my vehicle. I was trying to put a roof rack onto a Dodge Durango SRT...not a typical vehicle for this accessory! I looked everywhere for a suitable roof rack and thought I was settling by ordering the Inno kit from etrailer. I could not have been more wrong! I am so happy with the purchase!
We have actually not driven on a freeway with the rack on top so that will have to be another review. Company has excellent customer service and provided information before we even knew we needed to ask for it. :-) One note: installation measurements were a little difficult to understand exactly and we were 5/8"less that what they recommended for both front and back bars. Everything seems to be mounted securely so we hope nothing is messed up. We 100% recommend etrailer.com. A person answers the phone when you call. What a concept!
Haven’t loaded it up yet, but assembly was a breeze, the fit rock solid, and it looks great. Shipping was fast and free as well. This went on a 2020 MDX, So far so good!
I have had countless bike racks over the years and this is by far the best system I have ever had. Fits like a glove on my F150. Easy to install, looks great and the bikes do not move when on the roof.
Tule and Yakima did not have a rack for my Nissan murano. So it was a blessing to find the immo rack. It seems like it can fit any car model. It's strong and secure. I feel my equipment will be safe with this rack.
Noticed box was taped up more then usual, found other manuals that was not specifically for this, and also found one of the feet already had been mounted as there was scratches on the plastic and metal parts
Installation went pretty smoothly. The trick is to fully understand each step before moving to the next. There are a lot of small parts which at first was a little intimidating, but soon I was able to "get with it". I love the finished product and think you helped me get a good deal. Thank you for that
Installed incredibly quickly on my 2014 Prius V with some of the best instructions I could have ever asked for. Used the video as well in tandem and got it on the car in about an hour and a half with my partner. It was a lovely experience, which is sometimes difficult for couples to say in situations like this!
Seem to be well made for the price. I didn't realize that they came with locks so that was a pleasant surprise. Easy installation.
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